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North Carolina. W. A. Shands (June 25): This insect has been more abundant at 
Oxford during June than in June 193&* Although injury to tobacco has been 
light in comparison to that caused by other insects, it was more serious 
than in 1336, Severe injury was reported on young watermelon plants, 
Georgia, 0, I. Snapp (May 27): Has ruined corn in a field that laid fallow last 
year at Port Valley, central Georgia, 
A SCABAMEID ( Strigoderma arboricola F.) 
Maryland, E, N. Cory (June 15): Flying in numbers on the beach at Assateague 
Island and in small numbers in most of the bean and potato fields on the 
lower part of the Eastern Shore, 
SEED CORN MAGGOT ( Hylemia cili crura Rohd, ) 
Connecticut. A. W, Morrill Jr. (^une l): Several shade tents of tobacco in 
widely scattered locations showed damage, one or two being so severely in- 
jured as' to necessitate resetting. 
New York, R, W, Leiby (June l6) : Severe damage to fields of red kidney beans 
reported from Wayne, Cortland, Monroe, and Tompkins Counties, Damage 
ranged from .20 to 100 fo and the most severely damaged fields, some of which 
were from U to 8 acres in size, were plowed up, 
N, Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (June lU); Severe damage by this, 
insect and by flea beetles was estimated at nearly 50 1° to young bean 
plants on June 11 from two plantings of beans totaling from 8 to 10 acres. 
Other reports of similar injury in '.Cortland County. Two plantings tota- 
ling 12 acres of kidney beans in Tompkins County will be plowed up because 
of practically total loss. This insect caused losses to spinach grown 
this year in Nassau County, 
Indiana, J. J. Davis (June 25)* The seed corn maggot, severely damaged beans at 
Greenfield on June 8. 
Michigan, R. Hutson (June 18): Infestation is very dommon. » The pest is known 
as the bean maggot. The entire district of south-central Michigan, where 
white seed beans are raised, is infested. 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (June 21): Specimens, together with reports of moder- 
ate-to-heavy injury to corn and potatoes, have been received from points in 
Barnes, Sheridan, and Ward Counties, 
Colorado, R. L, Wallis (June 23): Many grbwers have reported damage to young 
cucumbers in Grand Valley, In some cases it has been_ necessary to replant, 
STALK BORER (Papaipema nebris nitela Guen, ) 
New Jersey. E. Kostal (June 26): One of our serious garden pests at Morganville, 
Monmouth County, and, together with the European corn borer, is inflicting 
heavy damage .to. sweet corn and many other plants. 
